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Showing posts with label Classic Literature. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Classic Literature. Show all posts

Margery of Quether by Sabine Baring-Gould

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‘Margery of Quether’ is a vampire story by Sabine Baring-Gould, published in 1891.  It tells the story of a romance that blossoms between a...

Why we are living in 'Gothic times'?

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There is a surge in goth-lit that channels our fears and anxieties. Hephzibah Anderson explores how the genre's past and new stories de...

Monsters of Gothic Fiction

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During the 1700s, as the world became better known through exploration and scientific experimentation, mythical monsters disappeared from ...

Vampire Stories of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

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Distinguished vampire literature bibliographer Robert Eighteen-Bisang edited this collection, titled simply VAMPIRE STORIES (2009). Sherloc...

Chinese Hopping Vampires: The Qing Dynasty roots behind the Jiangshi legend

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Now a cult obsession thanks to Hong Kong horror movies of the 1980s and 1990s, the legend of the hopping vampire was first detailed in a s...

Vampire myths originated with a real blood disorder

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The concept of a vampire predates Bram Stoker's tales of Count Dracula—probably by several centuries. But did vampires ever really exist...

The Icelandic Translation of ‘Dracula’ Is Actually a Different Book

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The mysteries of this Gothic classic aren’t over yet   The Icelandic version of Dracula is called Powers of Darkness, and it’s actually ...

The Wild Evolution of Vampires, From Bram Stoker to Dracula Untold

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As we’ve discussed here before, the tropes that define fantasy and horror literature are fluid, which is exactly why they persist. Vampires,...

Luella Miller

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Written by Mary E. Wilkins Freeman, taken from The Wind in the Rose-Bush and Other Stories of the Supernatural. CLOSE to the village st...

The Bodysnatcher

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Written by Robert Louis Stevenson, first published in the Pall Mall Christmas "Extra" 13 (Dec 1884) Every night in the year, ...

Was it a Dream?

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Written by Guy de Maupassant "I had loved her madly! "Why does one love? Why does one love? How queer it is to see only one b...

The Upper Berth

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By F. Marion Crawford (1854-1909), from G.P. Putnam's Sons _Autonym Library_ no. 1 (1894)

The Transfer

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The child first began to cry in the early afternoon— about three o’clock, to be exact. I remember the hour, because I had been listening wit...

Authenticated Vampire Story

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On June 10, 1909, there appeared in a prominent Vienna paper (the Neues Wiener Journal) a notice (which I herewith enclose) saying that the ...

Fragment of a Novel

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At the time Dr. Polidori's 'The Vampyre' was published, it was believed to have been written by Lord Byron . . . or at least...

The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar

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Edgar Allan Poe’s story, first printed in 1845, illustrating Poe’s active imagination, originality, and an eager interest in hypnotism -- re...

The Adventure of the Sussex Vampire

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A short story by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle involving the famous detective Sherlock Holmes. [Rumor has it that this story was apparently writt...

A Journey into the Levant

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A manuscript written by Joseph Pitton de Tournefort in the early 1700s. While traveling in Eastern Europe around 1700, he visited an island ...

Dracula's Guest

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This was originally part of Stoker's initial draft of Dracula, but it was omitted by the publisher due to the length of the novel. It wa...

The Mortal Immortal

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In this Shelley classic, our hero finds that immortality has its price. July 16, 1833. -- This is a memorable anniversary for me; on it...